John Adam
Co-Founder of CLCIA, 1992.
UK information & news archive
I am sure everyone has done a lot more but this is just from what I can recall or have notes about. A big thank you to everyone.
Co-Founder of CLCIA, 1992.
LCA Students Group, Leeds University.
UK Students for Sensible Drugs Policy.
Coffeeshop proprietor, Worthing, UK : “Quantum” Leaf, and “Buddies” - sent to prison for six months in 2004.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, Worthing East and Shoreham: 920 votes.
BBC Radio 1, Jimmy Young show, July 2001.
Lancing College, Sussex, debate, September 2001.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Worthing West: 515 votes.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Worthing East and Shoreham: 677 votes.
Meridian TV, October 2007.
Presentation to 30 political students at Brighton University, November 2009
LCA Campaign Coordinator, 2010.
Member of “The Coffeeshop Band”.
Mother of Chris Baldwin.
LCA Conference speaker.
Local supporter and helper in Norwich and Co-Founder of the Church of the Holy and Sacred Herb (UCHASH).
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
LCA Press Officer.
1st AGM National Drug User Development Agency Conference, London,
LCA Candidate Local Election 2002: Braintree by-election: 19 votes.
Today TV show, January 2004.
Co-author of “Cannabis: Challenging the Criminal Justice System” with Alun Buffry, 2004.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Norwich South: 219 votes.
Numerous Radio Interviews.
Global Million Marijuana March co-ordinator since 1999.
Youth International Party, US.
Arrested in 2011 in Wisconsin, sentenced to two and a half years in prison, he suffered a heart attack.
ENCOD Steering Committee, Slovenia.
AREAL.
Author of “The Benefits of Marijuana”.
Managing director of Hemp Foods Australia.
Author of “H.E.M.P: Healthy Eating Made Possible”.
Inventor of hemp seed food bar.
Developer and founder of Zeoform,
Long-term LCA supporter, Merseyside.
Successfully defended charges of supplying her daughter with “medicinal” cannabis.
Cannabis Hemp Museum, Haarlem, Holland.
Drug Equality Alliance, UK. (DEA)
Editor Independent on Sunday, led the “decriminalise cannabis” campaign.
Co-Founder of CLCIA, 1992.
Local supporter and helper in Norwich.
Co-Founder LCA with Jack Girling, 1999.
Speaker at LCA Conferences, Trafalgar Square Rally and other events.
Co-Founder of The Angel Declaration, 2000.
Speech to Politics Society, Notting Hill & Ealing High School for Girls, London, 2001.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, Norwich South: 620 votes.
Oxford Union debate "This House Would Legalise Cannabis" - supporting motion with PeterLilley MP, Jon Owen Jones MP and Prof Leslie Iverson;opposing motion Dr Tom Stutterford, Dr Bob Rae BMA, Peter Hitchin, October 2001
Live interview, BBC World Service Czech department, October 2001.
Oral Evidence to Home Affairs Committee Inquiry into UK Government Drugs Policy, House of Commons, London , November 2001.
'Shaping a New Agenda" Cannabis Conference, Liverpool, panel, February 2002.
1st AGM National Drug User Development Agency Conference, London, March 2002.
Nottingham Trades Fair Speech, May 2002.
Exeter University debating society: "This House Would Own A Cannabis Cafe",November 2002.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, University ward, Norwich: 107 votes.
ENCOD General Assembly Antwerp, 2006.
ENCOD General Assembly Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain, June 2008.
ENCOD and Spanish autonomous Basque Government in Vitoria-Gasteiz , November 2008.
ENCOD General Assembly Prague, 2011.
http://www.ccguide.org/ab_lte.php
Author of “From Dot to Cleopatra”.
Author of “Cannabis: Legalise and Utilise”.
Co-author of “Cannabis: Challenging the Criminal Justice System” with Don Barnard.
Author of “Cannabis: Friend or Foe”.
Designer of “No Victim No Crime” stickers.
Numerous Radio Interviews.
Long-term LCA supporter.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Mile Cross ward, Norwich: 108 votes. (all-up election)
Independent Cannabis Campaigner and Founder of the Cannabis Hemp Information Centre (CHIC) in London.
Organiser of September events in Hyde Park, London.
Speaker at Traflagar Square Rally and other events.
Proprietor “Hemp in Avalon” shop in Glastonbury.
Italy's Radical Party, who was arrested when he turned up to support Colin Davies in December 2001.
Local supporter and helper in Norwich.
Co-Founder of the Church of the Holy and Sacred Herb (UCHASH).
Meridian TV News, January 2004.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Heene Ward, Worthing: 173 votes.
Co-founder Norml UK
BBC Radio Sheffield, 6 June 2012
Local supporter and helper with CLCIA and LCA in Norwich.
Assisted with production of “Cannabis: Legalise and Utilise”, LCA document, 1999.
Cannabis College, Amsterdam.
Campaign Coordinator York
London cannabis campaigner.
Green Party spokesman on drugs.Co-organiser of London cannabis marches and Brockwell Park Cannabis Festival.
Co-Founder of “Release”.
Public speeches including LCA Conferences, Trafalgar Square Rally.
Artist. http://www.carolinecoon.com/
Co-organiser of London Cannabis marches and Cannabis Education, Trafalgar Square 2005 event.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
Cannabis Education Trust founder.
Sky TV News 2009.
Edinburgh medical cannabis activist appeared on Mark Thomas Show visiting Jack Straw, Home Secretary.
LCA Candidate Local Election 1999, Lakenham ward, Norwich: 65 votes.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Orkney and Shetland: 311 votes.
First LCA Party Election Broadcast for Wales, 2005.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Carmarthen West and South Pembs: 237 votes
Produced LCA TV Broadcast for Wales, 2005
Co-author of “Cannabis The Facts, Human Rights and the Law; The Report of the FCDA Europe”, (1994).
Co-author of “Cannabis The Facts, Human Rights and the Law; The Report of the FCDA Europe”, (1994).
Author of “Green Solution”, (1999).
Author of “Democracy Defined”, (2005).
Author of “Trial by Jury: Its History, True Purpose and Modern Relevance” with Lysander Spooner (Jan 1999).
Author of “Global Warming: The Scientific Green Solution to This World Crisis” (2000).
Liberal Democrat arrested when he turned up to support Colin Davies in December 2001.
Cleared of possession of “medicinal” cannabis 1998 and of supply of cannabis for medicinal use in 1999.
Founder of “The Dutch Experience” in Stockport, UK.
Sent to prison for three years in 2002.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2000, Peterborough East: 85 votes.
Sky News, March 2004.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Somersham ward, Huntingdon: 77 votes.
Found guilty of conspiracy with Mark Gibson and Lezley Gibson, to supply cannabis chocolate bars and given suspended prison sentence in 2006.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, Milton Keynes South West: 500 votes.
Crime Watch Daily TV show, November 2001.
Producer of “Green Britain” videos.
Birmingham LCA.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
First LCA Party Election Broadcast for Wales, 2005.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Vale of Clwyd: 286 votes.
Proprietor Beggars Belief, Rhyl (now closed).
Author of “Cannabis Cultivator: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growing Marijuana”.
BBC “Inside Out” 2006.
Co-Founder of CLCIA.
Cannabis Hemp Museum, Amsterdam - demonstrating vaporisers.
Founder, Director at the John Mordaunt Trust.
Trustee at International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
Hemp stalls at festivals and Big Green Gathering.
Retired head of Scotland Yard Drugs Squad.
Co-Founder of The Angel Declaration.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
Cannabis Culture magazine, Canada.
The publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine, Canada..
Founding member of the Freedom Party of Ontario, the Marijuana Party of Canada and the BC Marijuana Party, founder of the Iboga Therapy House and founder of Pot TV. He ran for mayor of the city of Vancouver in 1996, 2002 and 2008.
Marc Emery Direct Marijuana Seeds in 1995, which he ran until it was closed by a raid by Vancouver police acting on the request of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on July 29, 2005.
On September 10, 2010 in a Seattle court room, Marc Emery was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
SA4 TV in Welsh, April 2005.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Conwy: 193 votes.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Ynys Mon: 232 votes.
BBC Wales Election Special, April 2005.
Retired Human Rights Barrister.
Lliberty.
Co-Founder of The Angel Declaration.
Contributed section to “The Challenge”.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Thorpe Hamlet ward, Norwich: 115 votes. (all-up election).
LCA Candidate County Election 2005, Eaton District, Norfolk: 29 votes
ENCOD Steering Committee.
Local helper and supporter in Norwich.
Supporter of medicinal cannabis, Labour MP for Newport West
Layout of “Cannabis: Legalise and Utilise” second edition.
Swiss Hemp Farmer, ENCOD Steering committee: imprisoned.
Local supporter and helper, Norwich.
German Cannabis Campaigner.
ENCOD Steering Committee. France.
Cannabis sans frontières.
IMPUD.
Labour MP for Norwich North.
Layout of “Cannabis: Legalise and Utilise” second edition.
Found not guilty of cannabis possession due to medicinal necessity, 1999.
Granada TV, panel discussion, March 2002.
Ultimate Question TV show, November 2002.
Grampian TV, August 2003.
Border TV News and ITV Lookaround News, January 2004.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Carlisle: 343 votes
LCA Candidate County Election 2005, Morton District, Cumbria: 43 votes.
Co-Founder of THC4MS with Mark Gibson.
BBC “Inside Out” 2006.
Found guilty of conspiracy with Mark Gibson and Marcus Davies, to supply cannabis chocolate bars and given suspended prison sentence in 2006.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, Penrith and the Border: 870 votes.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
Lectured to students at Lancaster University, February 2002.
Lectured to students at John Moores Liverpool University, February 2002.
Debate at George Heriotts School, Edinburgh, June 2002.
Ultimate Question TV show, November 2002.
Represented LCA on Top Gear's TV show “The Fastest Politicians”, coming second; May 2003.
Grampian TV, July 2003.
Grampian TV Craig Miller Reports programme, August 2003.
Border TV News and ITV Lookaround News, January 2004.
"Think Green" conference of pharmacy students at Aston University, January 2004.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Penrith and the Border: 549 votes.
LCA Candidate County Election 2005, Belah District, Cumbria: 57 votes.
Co-Founder of THC4MS with Lezley Gibson.
Found guilty of conspiracy with Lezley Gibson and Marcus Davies, to supply cannabis chocolate bars and given suspended prison sentence in 2006.
Numerous press and radio interviews.
Co-Founder of CLCIA, 1992
LCA Candidate Local Election 1999, Mancroft ward, Norwich: 63 votes.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Catton Grove ward, Norwich: 98 votes. (all-up election).
Co-Founder of the Universal Church of the Holy and Sacred Herb (UCHAS).
Co-Founder of the LCA with Alun Buffry, 1999.
Co-Founder of CLCIA, 1992.
CLCIA Treasurer.
LCA Candidate Local Election 1999, St Stephen ward, Norwich: 53 votes
LCA Candidate Local Election 2000, Catton Grove ward, Norwich: 78 votes
Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Author of “Marihuana Reconsidered “ (1971, 1977 and 1994 ), “Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered “, “Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine” (1993) .
Co-organiser of London Cannabis marches.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Leigh: 415 votes.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2006, Leigh South ward, Wigan: 91 votes.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, Dorset South: 282 votes: 535 votes.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
ENCOD.
Proprietor of “Alchemy”, Portobello Road, London.
Legalise Cannabis Campaign Scotland.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, Edinburgh South: 535 votes.
Green Party, Scotland.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
Author of “The Emperor Wears No Clothes”.
Founder of The Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics, ACT, UK.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2000, St Stephen ward, Norwich: 43 votes.
Local supporter and helper in Norwich.
Co-organiser Cardiff Cannabis Rallies.
Co-founder of Norml UK.
BBC Radio Sheffield, 6 June 2012.
The Cannabis Truth Roadshow in Swansea, Cardiff and Newport, Wales, November 2011.
Co-author of “Damage and Humanity in Custody” with Alun Buffry.
Cannabis Campaigner, Orkney.
Local supporter and helper in Norwich and on stalls.
Labour MP, Cardiff at Oxford Union debate.
The Exodus Collection, Luton.TV Show “Living with the Enemy”.
National Users Network.
User Rep and Director of the UK Harm Reduction Alliance, 2002 - 2009.
Senior National Advocate and Eastern Regional advocate for the Methadone alliance from 2001-2007.
Substance misuse Management in General Practice group, 2003 - 2006.
Moderator NDUN 'UK Users' Internet list
Co-Producer of History of the LCA video slide shows.
TRANSFORM.
Home Affairs Committee oral evidence.
Hosting of early LCA web sites.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2000, Romsey: 417 votes.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, Romsey: 601 votes.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Wensum ward, Norwich: 92 votes. (all-up election)
Conservative MP, debated for cannabis cafes at Oxford Union.
Author of “Common Sense on Cannabis: The Conservative Case for Change”.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, Calder Valley: 672 votes.
“Krystals” Kidderminster.
Author of “Mr Nice”.
Author of “Senior Nice”.
Author of “Sympathy for the Devil”.
Independent single-issue cannabis candidate 1997, Norwich North, Norwich South, Neat and Southampton Test.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
UK Medicinal Cannabis Campaigner.
BBC News 2010.
The Great North Run.
Amigos de Maria, Spain.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
Meridian TV News, January 2004.
First LCA Party Election Broadcast for Wales, 2005.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, East Surrey: 410 votes.
Worthing and Brighton Coffeeshop helper.
BBC Radio Sussex News, October 2007.
LCA Steering Committee, 2010.
Member of “The Coffeeshop Band”.
Local supporter Norwich.
Long-term supporter, Scotland.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Eaton ward, Norwich: 69 votes. all-up election).
ENCOD Steering Committee. Spain.
Co-author of “Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence” with Lynn Zimmer.
Independent cannabis campaigner, Wales.
Local supporter and helper in Norwich especially in “Paradox Delights”, Howard Marks's campaign shop and HQ, 1997
Druid.
Candidate News Millennium, New Way, Braintree, 1997.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, Braintree: 774 votes.
James Paget Hospital consultant, Great Yarmouth.
Helped Frank Kirk produce series of History of the LCA video slide shows.
Independent campaigner in Wales. Presented written evidence to the Welsh Assembly.
Sacked Chair of Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).
Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs
Organise “Green Britain” event in Coventry.
LCA Publications Officer.
Grampian TV, July 2003.
Sky News, March 2004.
MC at Cannabis Rally in Trafalgar Square.
Sky News and Channel 5 News, March 2005.
BBC Newsnight, April 2005.
First LCA Party Election Broadcast for Wales, 2005.
Long-time supporter and helper for LCA.
LCA Publications Officer.
MC in Trafalgar square rally.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2001, Appleton ward, Halton: 151 votes.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Appleton ward, Halton: 159 votes.
Secretariat of ENCOD.
Speaker at LCA Conference 2007 and other events.
Trekt Ur Plant, Antwerp, Belgium.
Public hearing on EU drug policy, European Parliament, Brussels, on 23 February 2010.
LCA Campaign Coordinator Nov 2006 to 2007.
Ex-Labour Mayor of Carlisle.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary By-Election 1999, Kensington and Chelsea: 141 votes.
LCA Conference speaker.
BBC East of Westminster TV, March 2000.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary 2001, Carlisle: 554 votes.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2002, Carlisle: 26 votes.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Bowthorpe ward, Norwich: 70 votes. (all-up election).
ENCOD General Assembly Prague, 2011.
Italian Radical Party leader Marco Pannella (71 ) handed himself to police for arrest for possession of cannabis, in support of Colin Davies, but officers refused to arrest him.
North Shropshire Council, court-room style debate "Cannabis is Detrimental to Health", Market Drayton school 14-16 year-olds: March 2003.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Swansea West: 218 votes.
LCA Steering Committee, 2010.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Town Close ward, Norwich: 87 votes. (all-up election).
Local supporter and helper in Norwich and on stalls.
Eric's Kitchen.
Author of “Cannabis For Lunch”.
Authoress of “Cooking with Ganja”.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, Workington: 1040 votes.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Workington: 381 votes.
LCA Candidate County Election 2005, Belle Vue District, Cumbria: 57 votes.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, Chelmsford West: 693 votes.
President of ENCOD. (The Netherlands).
Vienna NGO Committee on Narcotic Drugs.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Sheldon ward, Birmingham: 123 votes.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2006, Sheldon ward, Birmingham: 45 votes.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
LCA Birmingham.
ITN Central, July 2007.
Local supporter and helper in Norwich and Co-Founder of the Church of the Holy and Sacred Herb (UCHASH).
LCA Candidate Local Election 1999, Coslany ward, Norwich: 83 votes.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2000, Mancroft ward, Norwich: 30 votes.
Editor of CCNEWS and CCNEWZ.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
Cannabis for Autism
ENCOD, Spain.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary By-Election 2001, Ipswich: 236 votes.
Independent Cannabis campaigner.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2000, Bowthorpe ward, Norwich, 100 votes.
LCA Treasurer until 2006.
ENCOD, Portugal.
IMPUD.
Co-organiser of London Cannabis marches and Brockwell Park Cannabis Festivals.
Prison Governor HMP Blantyre House: inspired production of “Damage and Humanity in Custody”.
LCA supporter and artist for Worthing Coffeeshops.
Dutch Coffeeshop owner, Willie Wortels, Haarelem,
Inspiration behind Coffeeshop Managers Course, Haarlem.
Inspiration behind “Dutch Experience” cannabis cafes, Stockport and Bournemouth UK.
Author of “The Dutch Experience”.
“Run From The Cure”.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Nelson ward, Great Yarmouth: 187 votes (all-up election).
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Great Yarmouth: 389 votes.
West Midlands Cannabis Community.
BBC Radio Worcester, 17 May 2012.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2000, Mousehold ward, Norwich: 39 votes.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Sewell ward, Norwich: 94 votes. (all-up election).
Founder of ProtestLondon: London, Redditch and Dorset protests. 2008 - 2010.
Independent cannabis campaigner.
“Grannie Pat”, “Cannabis Gran”, “The Grandma that Eats Cannabis”.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Neath: 334 votes.
BBC “Inside Out” 2006.
LCA Leicester.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2001, Stockbridge and Wellow, Hampshire: 288 votes.
Cannabis Candidate Local Election 1998, Catton Grove ward, Norwich.
LCA Candidate Local Election 1999, Catton Grove ward, Norwich: 38 votes.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Canterbury: 326 votes.
LCA Conference speaker.
ENCOD Steering Committee, Italy.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, East fife, 420 votes
Local supporter and helper, Norwich.
Green Party Candidate, Norfolk, European Parliament elections, 1999 and 2004.
LCA Conference speaker.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2001, Hull North: 478 votes.
Calender TV, January 2004.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Hull North: 179 votes.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Hull East: 182 votes.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2003, Newland ward, Hull: 39 votes.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Newland ward, Hull: 109 votes.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2006, Avenues ward, hull: 103 votes.
BBC Look North, BBC Humberside, November 2007.
BBC Look North with "Dads against drugs", December 2007.
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Lakenham ward, Norwich: 83 votes. (all-up election).
Proprietor of “Applewoods Hydroponica” .
Bournemouth cannabis cafe.
Co-Founder of CLCIA, 1992.
LCA Steering Committee and Secretary, 2010.
LCA Candidate Parliamentary Election 2005, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr: 272 votes.
Ex Chief Constable.
Author of “Legalising Cannabis, a Proposal” and “The Leaf and the Law: The Case for the Legalisation of Cannabis”.
UK Cannabis Internet Activists (UKCIA) webmaster
LCA Candidate Local Election 2004, Nelson ward, Norwich: 158 votes. (all-up election).
ITV “Wales This Week” news report on grit weed, 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_-Hf0NXMNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8QNeU-B3Kk
Recorded LCA Conferences.
Contributed section to “The Challenge”.
The Hemp Coalition candidate London 1995.
Co-Founder of CLCIA, 1992.
LCA Secretary 2007 to 2010.
Speaker at LCA Conferences and other events.
Staffs TV News March 2009.
ENCOD. Germany.
Co-Founder of CLCIA, 1992.
Proprietor of “Head in the Clouds” Norwich.
Founder of “Humedi”, medicinal cannabis supply.
Co-author of “Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence” with John Morgan.